I always considered EV to be an iterative tech. We should always have been aiming for hydrogen. As it so happens, Hyundai has what to me is the most interesting hydrogen/fuel cell car, the Nexo. I'm considering getting it in the very near future, in fact, though if you had asked me any point in the past whether I'd ever own a Hyundai I would given you a resounding no.

"repair" and "upgrade" are not in fact the same words...

Step1: state a mission and design goals for the software.

Some number of steps after.

StepN: completely implement the mission and design goals for the software.

It has been decades since Microsoft has finished an OS, unless consider the real secret goal to just make a marketing platform...which win10 did well for them.

I didn't know the name, and even in context didn't recognize that name as the third member, until the story specifically stated such. Guess I'm not a member of the "everyone" crowd.

In your mind, what you're describing *isn't* an asshole? Really?

when the Soviet Union started collapsing, it was the largest producer of energy in the world. Even now they are at the top of the list, as just Russia. I mean heat, electricity, and gasoline aren't as important as getting the latest plastic widget daily, and you can live without those things much longer than you can live without buying a new barbie doll or whatnot in a pinch, but still - they aren't completely irrelevant to daily life and aren't meaningless as an aggressive negotiating tool.

trying to reduce costs as much as possible is more or less the point. What is it that you think regulation has as an intended purpose? You could say the same thing about building construction - a building design that only collapses 1% of the time every 10 years is very substantially different than a building design that will only collapse if a large bomb takes it down. A food processing plant that only kills 0.5% of the people that eat the food via preventable contaminations is going to be dramatically cheaper to make than one that has sufficient checks to prevent any contamination. A cattle processing plant where only 0.5% of the cattle that go through has mad cow disease, is going to have a dramatically cheaper operations than one that has 0 mad cow get put into the food chain. This is a problem that has happened twice in the last couple decades in Texas. It is 100.00000000% about deregulation, and people thinking "big government" is "bad." The leaders of the GOP are 100.00000000% to blame for this, but the voters will just blame the libs again.

in my opinion, trying to argue against the extreme environmental disaster and pyramid scheme that is bitcoin is very constructive. What /isn't/ constructive, or useful in any way, is the exceptional amount of damage the ridiculously pointless currency does, under the auspice of meaningless benefits that can be had elsewhere at a millionth of the environmental damage.

sod off, musk isn't going to let you give him a blow job. We made substantial progress on electric before musk, and substantial progress on reusable rockets before musk (we had a reusable space vehicle in flight when he was 10). Stop thinking the guy is going to save you. He's not a messiah, he's a cliche' evil bond villain. As a person for whom deep brain stimulation has been considered in the past for a movement disorder I have, no - there is no excuse for this.

you didn't even have to RTFA, you could have just read the slash post. In 2017, the account Obama used was archived and had its followers copied to a new @potus account that didn't have any posts. The new @potus account had no access to the old posts from Obama. They could have done the same thing here, but chose not to because...well, reasons I guess.

inversely, maybe we shouldn't be calling everyone with a 4 year degree that then allows them to find out why the office printer isn't working, a "scientist"

yeah we're currently rate-limited by who would make good fighter pilots while being good soldiers (ie, loyal and obeying orders) - being that fit, mentally and physically, with that fast of reaction and that good of coordination, is hard to get...couple that with people willing to die for something, and it rate-limits the whole thing. Flying a drone, though? Especially one that will likely become automated soon? Suddenly we can be a lot more of a global asshole, a lot easier and quicker. Think of what an aircraft carrier for drones looks like, for instance - it could be a freaking submarine.

what I am describing is indeed what *is*, because otherwise we'd still be struggling to leave caves. It's true there are a number of conmen who try to game the system/society, but by and large the fact that we are still mostly (well, maybe not the last couple years...) progressing as a society means we are still in fact aiming toward the greater good. I typically find that people who think all of society is full of sharks and chum, are precisely the very rare few who fall into one of those categories themselves, while the rest of us sigh and continue on with the real world.

Incorrect. Society is based on cooperation and protection, and promotion of the Greater Good. That is how we made it out of caves, it is how we made science and art and math and rockets and music. We didn't do that by closing our eyes to what is going on around us. We did it by all agreeing to do, and be, better.

That sig you got there..."Don't 'check' your privileges, USE them. Use them to do good." So, informed consumers? Invisible hand of the whatever? All of the utopian capitalism dream, to heck with all that noise? Sortof a step in the right direction I guess, to recognize the whole system as broken. Next step is to USE the abilities you have. USE them to do good. book of faces was founded as a scummy site to rate girls on their appearance, when people joined it zuck mocked them and called them idiots. Those are the founding principles of the company. That anyone would still volunteer any info to him, or spend their time on that site, just boggles my mind.